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Health factor in anti-waste incinerator campaigns in Beijing an / Johnson, Thomas

Johnson, Thomas	Journal Article
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2013.

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This article draws on interview and documentary data from three anti-incinerator campaigns in Beijing and Guangzhou to examine how urban middle-class homeowners respond to potential local health hazards. It illustrates how and why campaigners shifted from a heavily localized "not-in-my-backyard" (NIMBY) approach that opposed incinerators based on their siting towards a much broader critique of incineration that exploited weaknesses in waste management policy. Although public health concerns remained central during the course of the three campaigns, how they were presented changed as campaigners developed expertise through self-study. This enabled them to construct an alternative narrative about incineration and present their arguments from a public interest perspective, thus deflecting the pejorative NIMBY label.

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Environment ; Middle Class ; Health ; China ; Waste Incineration ; Citizen Advocacy

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NIMBYism, waste incineration, and environmental governance in China / Huang, Xiaodu; Yang, Dali L

Yang, Dali L	Journal Article
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With the world’s largest population and rapid urbanization, China is in the throes of a waste management crisis. Efforts to cope with this crisis through waste incineration have been met with growing NIMBYism as the Chinese public become more environmentally aware and are determined to protect their health and economic interests. We review the turn to incineration and the major characteristics of NIMBYism and ensuing protests against waste incinerators. We then describe the May 2014 Jiufeng incinerator protest in Hangzhou and the subsequent efforts to successfully respond to NIMBYist protests and build the proposed incineration plant on the planned site. The Hangzhou Jiufeng case offers a model for breaking the logjam between development and NIMBYism, leading to important improvements in environmental governance and regulation.

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Environmental Governance ; NIMBY ; Waste Incineration ; Environmental Protests ; YIMBY ; Hangzhou Jiufeng

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